Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Chasing Bob Avakian

I got a chuckle from this part of Mark Oppenheimer’s piece in Sunday’s Boston Globe about the “persecution” of Bob Avakian.

In 1979 Avakian was arrested at a demonstration against Deng Xiaoping’s visit to the White House; charged with assaulting a police officer, he fled the United States for France. ... And so he remains in exile, a man persecuted in his own land. Except he isn’t. All charges against Bob Avakian were dropped in 1982, as he admits in his book. But the chairman is still on the run, even if nobody is chasing him.

The rest of the article is not so funny and reads like your typical snarky Boston Globe/New York Times/Washington Post “look at those wacky 21st century Lefties who remain stuck in the sixties” hit piece. I’m not saying the antics of Avakian and the Revolutionary Communist Party don’t make good fodder for humorists. But just because Avakian and his followers might be flakes doesn’t mean all is peachy keen in America.


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